One hundred million years of stasis: Siphonophora hui sp. nov., the first Mesozoic sucking millipede (Diplopoda: Siphonophorida) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Fossil records of the ancient and less studied millipede order Siphonophorida are rare and only known from Oligocene-Miocene Dominican amber to date. Here, we describe a Mesozoic species of this order, Siphonophora hui sp. nov., based on two well-preserved specimens from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The new species can be placed in the family Siphonophoridae by having mouthparts strongly modified into a long beak, straight antennae, the...